Digital Hollywood Spring '08 celebrates new talent in the "New Social Digital Media Landscape," when it meets May 5-8 in Hollywood, holding events like the VIP opening day dinner hosted by Tim Chang, featuring  Damon Wayans, Tyrese Gibson, and Chuck D, and a poolside reception hosted by Microsoft Media Center. A new award takes shape as Deutsche Telekom and fmx 08 join forces to honor new concepts, cutting edge developments and forward thinkers, shaping the future of digital entertainment, through the "fmx 08 - Deutsche Telekom Digital Entertainment Awards" to be presented May 5-8 at the 13th International Conference on Animation, Effects, Games, and Digital Media in Stuttgart. Delray Beach Film Festival makes its third annual start from May 6-11, offering independent short and feature-length films, such as Stella...More

Professional television and stage actor Michael Kostroff (dark and unscrupulous gang lawyer, Maury Levy in HBO's "The Wire," and other appearances to his credit in "Studio 60," "The Closer," "Without a Trace," etc.), and the author of the book, "Letters from Backstage" (www.myspace.com/lettersfrombackstage) conducts "Audition Psych 101" (AuditionPsych101@aol.com)  an audition workshop, one night only on April 3, in Hollywood. Author, screen, television writer, and executive consultant on HBO's "Rome" series, Josh Conviser, will discuss writing for film, television, and literature at the Alameda Writers Group monthly meeting set or April 5 in Glendale. The Film/TV Production and Finance Summit is set to meet April 10-11 in Los Angeles, and its organizers say it is for...More

Now in its 26th year, Canadian Music Week, March 5-8, is a conference focusing on the business of music and spans four nights of performances, with over 500 showcasing bands at over 40 live music venues in downtown Toronto. International Festival of Films on Art encourages the film industry, both nationally and internationally, to increase its annual production of films on art. To this end, it strives to develop international markets by inviting both Canadian and foreign filmmakers, professionals and artists to participate in exchanges and networking forums at this year's festival in Montreal, from March 6-16. 'Earth Vision - The Tokyo Global Environmental Film Festival', from March 7-9, has been held annually in Tokyo as a visual forum to examine the environment through moving images. This year's South by Southwest (SxSW) Film Festival and SXSWClick Shorts Fest, runs March 7-16 in Austin....More